As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission
Matthew Zapruder, "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission" from Come on All You Ghosts. Copyright © 2010 by Matthew Zapruder. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press.
Source: Come on All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
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Poet Matthew Zapruder b. 1967
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Subjects Nature, Stars, Planets, Heavens
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Poet and editor Matthew Zapruder was born in Washington, DC. He earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Zapruder’s poems employ nuanced, conversational syntax to engage themes of grief, perception, and logic. As Dana Jennings noted in the New York Times, Zapruder . . .
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SUBJECT Nature, Stars, Planets, Heavens
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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